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EMINENT SCIENTISTS VISIT IISER PUNE What’S New 2 IISER Pune Saw a Number of Renowned Personalities Last Month R E P U B L I C D A Y S P E C I A L VOLUME 01 ISSUE 01 S E N T I E N C E FEB 2011 T H E M O N T H L Y N E W S L E T T E R O F I I S E R P U N E this issue EMINENT SCIENTISTS VISIT IISER PUNE What’s new 2 IISER Pune saw a number of renowned personalities last month. We had visits by a physics Nobel laureate, a chemistry Nobel Laureate, an Abel Prize winner, a world famous physicist and a renowned neuroscientist. Their talks and interaction motivated and excited the students as well as the faculty. in the Comp Lab A chat with 2 Sir Anthony J Legett Arsenic based 3 DNA - A Breakthrough, will radically change the way we view our world VENKATRAMAN SIR SRS SIR MRIGANKA RAMAKRISHNAN ROGER PENROSE VARADHAN ANTHONY JAMES LEGGETT SUR A bubble called 3 Structural Biologist, Mathematical physicist, Renowned mathematician, Professor of Physics, Neuroscientist, “The Bank” 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1988 Wolf Prize in Physics 2007 Abel Prize winner 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics Fellow of the Royal Society Ever wondered Dr. Venkatraman Ramakrish- Professor Roger Penrose, is a Professor SRS Varadhan is a Sir Anthony James Leggett Professor Mriganka Sur is a where money nan is a structural biologist prominent mathematical renowned mathematician. He visited IISER Pune among Fellow of the Royal Society well known for his work on physicist of our time. He has is a Fellow of the Royal Soci- various other institutes during and the Newton Professor & comes from? uncovering the structure and made great contributions to ety and has won many awards his 20 day long visit to India Head, Department of Brain function of ribosome and the fields of General Relativ- for his work in Probability from 6th January 2011 to 1st and Cognitive Sciences, Mas- Marvellous macromolecular crystallogra- ity and Cosmology. Moreover, Theory. February 2011. sachusetts Institute of Tech- 4 phy. He is also known for his as a recreational philosopher, nology, USA. His laboratory He did his undergraduate He gave a public lecture at work on the structure of the he has also discussed physics is renowned for its work on “Feet”- studies at Presidency College, IUCAA on 12th January 2011 histone and chromatin. and consciousness. Neuroscience. Using experi- Madras and obtained his doc- on the topic ‘Why can't time A feat of courage, mental and theoretical ap- His is a remarkable case He has contributed a lot to torate from the Indian Statis- run backwards?’ followed by a against all odds proaches, it studies develop- where he transitioned from science and has been hon- tical Institute under the guid- talk in NCL on 13th January mental plasticity and the dy- theoretical physics to biology oured on numerous occa- ance of C R Rao in 1963. 2011, as a part of NCL Foun- namic changes in mature cor- and ended up winning the sions. Some of the notable dation Day on ‘What can we Variation in He is known for his work with tical networks during informa- 5 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in awards he has received are- do with a Quantum Liquid?’ Daniel W Stroock on diffusion tion processing, learning and Fundamental 2009 with Thomas A. Steitz The Eddington Medal (1975), processes and for his work on He also attended a function in memory. and Ada E. Yonath "for stud- the Wolf Prize (1988), the large deviations with M. D. HR4 and talked about his life Constants ies of the structure and func- Dirac Medal (1989) and the He is a regular visitor to IISER Donsker. with students and faculty. He tion of the ribosome". Copley Medal (2008). Pune. He gave a special semi- How can a con- also gave away the prizes for Some of the notable awards nar to students and faculty on He currently works in the He is currently the Emeri- academic excellence for Fall conferred upon him are: The the 17th of January 2011 at 3 Structural Studies Division of tus Rouse Ball Professor of 2010 and Spring 2010. It was The Art Birkhoff prize in 1994, the pm in HR4 on ‘Brain Wiring 5 the MRC (Medical Research Mathematics at the Mathe- really a unique experience for Steele Prize in 1996 with and Brain Disorders’. The talk of Polage Council) Laboratory of Mo- matical Institute, University of the students. Daniel W Stroock, the Abel was thoroughly enjoyed by lecular Biology in Cambridge, Oxford and Emeritus Fellow Prize in 2007 for his work on the audience. Painting using England . of Wadham College . light! large deviations, Fellow of He visited IISER Pune for a He visited IISER Pune for 3 Royal Society of London in th th th page 2 short duration on the 18 of days from the 24 to the 26 1998. The government of In- December last year. A special of December 2010. He gave a dia honoured him in 2008 A chat with session was organized where public lecture at IUCAA on with a Padma Bhushan. he interacted with under- 24th December titled ‘Seeing Sir Anthony James Leggett geneExpression – 6 He is currently Professor, graduate as well as Ph.D. stu- through the Big Bang into Students’ corner Mathematics Department at dents of IISER Pune. another World’ followed by a the prestigious Courant Insti- lecture at IISER Pune on the He also gave a lecture in NCL tute of Mathematical Sci- featured same topic on 25th December. on the same day on ‘The ences at New York University. page 2 Academic Buzz structural basis of tRNA selec- On the 26th of December, he He gave a seminar in IISER tion by the ribosome’ organ- interacted with students for page 3 Technology Focus Pune titled ‘Entropy, relative ized jointly by IISER Pune and about 2 hours, which indeed entropy and the study of rare WE ARE ON THE WEB NCL along with The Reliance was inspiring for all the stu- page 4 Book Review events’ on 4th January 2011. LEAP (Leading Experts Access dents. www.iiserpunenewsletter. He also had an interaction page 6 Foodie Corner Programme). webs.com session with the students on x the same day. S E N T I E N C E page 2 Academic Buzz AVANI What’s New In The Comp Lab SACHIT 1.Laser Interferometer Gravitational As many of you would have noticed, display right happily ever after - the de- ture comforts for programming like Wave Observatory( LIGO) most of the computers in our computer tails should have been sent to you by auto indentation – automatic insertion undergraduate summer programme. lab are now running the latest Ubuntu mail. of the right number of white spaces in Last date for application:-16th (10.10). Along with that, we now have a the start of a line (makes Python soo February 2011 new file server of 10TB capacity, and a The good? Well there is a long list... much easier); code folding - don't want Website:-www.ligo.caltech.edu/ lot of new software has been installed. First of all, the clients and the server are to see the whole code of three nested Ouch! I sound like the annual report at LIGO_web/students/undergrads.html now using a more appropriate network loops and their if statements? Click on some meeting. OK - what does this file system, so no long waits while Fire- the little minus and hide them all in a mean for us poor souls who depend on fox loads and OpenOffice.org doesn‟t single line till you need them; comment 2.Centre for Astrophysics and the lab for our computation, browsing crash left, right and centre or at least toggle - want to (un)comment a whole Supercomputing (CAS) vacation and word processing? not as often. Both the browser and the set of code? Select it and press Ctrl+e. research programme– For those Office suite are now running recent These are just the features of the editor interested in Astrophysics. First up, one bit of bad news - the pan- versions and that means a lot more cool that I use most often. There are side For more details check website els (the bars on the top and the bot- features. There's a lot of other new panes where you can see the variables Website:- astronomy.swin.edu.au/ tom) don't display properly in Ubuntu software – the R statistical package, the and functions, switch between docu- study/vacstudents.html without some tweaking on your part. PiTiVi video editor and so on. In this ments and even an integrated terminal This is because they were configured by column, we hope to review software that you can use check your code. A 3.Ravi Sankaran Fellowship-For those Red Hat 5 which was running a much (, and discuss tips and tricks to making thing that I assume a lot of people are interested in Ecology and much, much) older version of the soft- computer use more fun. not going to be able to get enough of is Conservation ware responsible for that. Hence the the ability to run code without using the Website:-www.ravisankaran.org instructions in your home directory for Geany: A light weight editor licensed terminal - press F5 and voilà! A new displaying your panels sound medieval under GPL – a wonderful little inte- terminal opens running your code – 4.Conference on Advances in Energy (Brutus: “I am not gamesome: I do lack grated development environment (IDE) nifty, though I still prefer using “./ Research organized by ICAER.
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